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McMillan and McMillan

McMillan and McMillan is a joint event with our patron, Andrew McMillan and his father, the poet Ian McMillan.

Saturday 17 November 7.30pm | Hippodrome Theatre

Join one of the UK’s best known contemporary poets, Ian McMillan, and his son, award-winning poet, Andrew McMillan, for an entertaining evening of poetry and rip-roaring conversation, and a rollicking good night out!

Writer and broadcaster Ian McMillan is a familiar voice on national radio and a regular on BBC television. His work includes poetry, plays, his autobiography Talking Myself Home: My Life in Verses and a voyage around Yorkshire in Neither Nowt Nor Summat. His latest collection of poetry To Fold The Evening Star: New and Selected Poems was published in 2016.

Andrew McMillan’s debut, physical, was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award. It also won a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers’ Award and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection playtime was published by Jonathan Cape on 2 August 2018 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2018. He is a senior lecturer in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.